SAY 521 Statistical Techniques in Business 3+0 6,0

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1 SAY 521 Statistical Techniques in Business 3+0 6,0 Describing Data; Summarizing Descriptive Relationships; Probability: Discrete random variables and Probability distributions, Continuous random variables and probability distributions; Sampling and Sampling Distribution: Estimation, Hypothesis testing; Simple Regression; Multiple regression; Nonparametric Statistics: Goodness-of-fit tests and contingency tables; Analysis of Variance; Time Series Analysis and Forecasting; Statistical Decision Theory. SOS 533 The State and Society in Turkey 3+0 6,0 Ottoman Heritage, Thoughts of Ottomanism, Islamism and Turkism; Foundation of Modern Turkish Republic, Nation Bulding Process; Single and Multi-Party Periods in Turkey, the State and Civic Society Relationship, Problems in Democratization in Contemporary Turkey. SOS 615 Woman Studies in Turkey 3+0 7,5 Gender; Gender discussions in Turkey; Woman studies versus feminist studies; Patriarchy and woman; Production and woman; Peproduction and woman; Woman studies centers; Woman studies graduate programmes; Woman s organizations in Turkey; Woman Shelters; Woman studies literature in Turkey. İKT 545 Microeconomic Theory 3+0 6,0 Constrained Optimization, The Langrage Method; Consumer Preferences Theory; Utility Maximization and Choices; Income, Price and Substitution Effects, Revealed Preferences Theory; The Theory of Firm; Marshall Analysis, Hicks Analysis; Changes in producer Equilibrium; Price Analysis: Supply, Demand, Market and Results of Price Determination, Supply and Demand Elasticity; Constrained Output Maximization, Constrained Cost Maximization; Short-Run and Long-Run Cost Analysis; Firm Equilibrium in Different Markets and Factor Markets; Perfect Competition Market Analysis; Monopoly Market Analysis; General Equilibrium and Welfare; Pareto Optimality: Pareto Optimality in Consumption and Production; First and Second Best Theories of Welfare. İKT 547 Mathematical Economics 3+0 6,0 Integral Calculus; Definite Integral; Indefinite Integral; Differential Equations; Differential Equations of the First Order; Linear Differential Equations of a Higher Order with Constant Coeffcients; Systems of the First Order Linear Differential Equations; Simultaneous Differential Equations, Types of Equilibria; Difference Equations; First-order Linear Difference Equations; Second-Order Linear Difference Equations; The General Case of Order n; Introduction to Dynamic Optimization; The First-Order Conditions; Present-Value and Current-Value Hamiltonians; Dynamic Problems with Inequality Constraints İKT 549 History of Economic Thought 3+0 6,0 Methodology and Scientific Approach; Greek and Medieval Economic Thought: Socrates, Aristotle, Aquinas, Islamic Economics; Mercantilism: Calvin, Thomas Mun, Bodin, Bacon, Petty, Locke; Period of Enlightenment: Rousseau, Turgot, Cantillon, Hume, Quesnay; Adam Smith and

2 Classical School: Hutcheson, Mandeville, Say; British Classical Political Economy: Malthus, Godwin, James Mill, Ricardo, Thornton, Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Nassau Senior; Neoclassical Economics and Marginalist Revolution: Jevons, Pareto, Menger, Edgeworth, Marshall, Walras, Clark; Historical Schools: Jones, List, Schmoller, Sombart, Weber; Utopist Socialism: Owen, Fourier, Rodbertus, Proudhon, Blanc, Saint-Simon, Lassalle, The Fabians, Bakunin; Karl Marx; American Institutionalism: Ayres, Galbraith, Veblen; Monetary and Income Analysis: Myrdal, Schumpeter, Fisher, Wicksell, Keynes, Hayek. İKT 551 Monetary Economics I 3+0 6,0 Definition and Functions of Money; Interest Rates; Calculation of Interest Rates; Theories of Interest Rates; Loanable Funds Theory; Liquidity Preference Theory; Risk and Term Structure of Interest Rates: Yield curves and interpretation, Expectations hypothesis, Liquidity Premium hypothesis, Segmented markets hypothesis; Theories of Demand for money: Classical quantity theory, Developments in Keynesian theory, Post Keynes; Transmission of money; General Equilibrium and Effectiveness of Monetary Policy. İKT 553 International Trade: Theory and Policy 3+0 6,0 Trade Theories: Ricardo Model; Trade Theories: Ricardo Model: Heckscher-Ohlin Model; External Economies of Scale; Internal Economies of Scale; Intra-Industry Trade; Foreign Trade Policy Tools: Tariffs; Foreign Trade Policy Tools: quota, subsidies, dumping; Foreign Trade Policy and Industrialization; Theses For and Against Free Trade; WTO; Trade in Goods; Trade in Agricultural Products; Trade in Services; Regional Trade Agreements İKT 555 Economic Growth 3+0 6,0 Basic Concepts of Growth: Product function, Properties of growth, Results of growth; Growth Models: Classical growth models: Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Schumpeter; Modern Growth Theories: Harrod- Domar; Pos-Keynesian Growth Model; Income Distribution Theories: Kaldor Model, Pasinetti Model; Optimal Growth Models: Von Neumann Model; Endogenous Growth Models; Case Studies of Growth in Turkey and the World. İKT 557 Evolution of Macroeconomic Thought 3+0 6,0 J.M.Keynes versus Old Classical Thought; Orthodox Keynesians and Interpretation of Keynes; Monetarist School and Milton Friedman; New Classical School; Real Business Cycle (RBC) School; New Keynesian (NKE) School; Austrian School and its Critique of Neoclassical Economics and Socialism; Post- Keynesians; Karl Marx and his Critique of Classical Economics. İKT 559 Turkish Economy and Contemporary Issues 3+0 6,0 A Brief Overview of Turkish Economic History: Economical growth and development, Characteristics of business cycle, Transformations of political economy; Sources of Capital Accumulation in Turkish Economy: Domestic sources (private sector, public sector), Foreign

3 sources; Sectoral Analysis of Turkish Economy: Agriculture, Industry, Services; Foreign Economic Relations of Turkey: Foreign trade, Capital movements, Position of Turkey in the world economy; Financial Structure of Turkish Economy: Monetary markets, Interest rates, Exchange rates, Banking, Stock markets; Social Appearance of Turkish Economy: Labor, Economic growth, Income distribution; Problems of Turkish Economy: Inflation, Unemployment, Debt, Economic stability and financial crises. İKT 561 Development Economics 3+0 6,0 The Basic Dynamics and Resources of Economic Development: Accumulation of capital, Technological development, Human capital; Institutional Structure and Economic Development: Institutional structure s effect on economic development, Institutional economics; Culture and Economic Development: Socio-cultural approaches in economic development; Corruption and Economic Development: Concept of corruption, Informality; Environment and Economic Development: Sustainable development, Energy; Development Financing: Economic features of developing countries, Approaches in development finance. İKT 563 Behavioral Economics 3+0 6,0 Overview of Behavioral Finance; Arbitrage Limit, Short-Selling Restrictions Operations; Dotcom Bubble Oriented Debates; In Investment Brokerage Problems: Performance of Hedge Funds, Initial Public Offerings; Khaneman and Tversky, Investor Psychology; Overreaction and Momentum; Shleifer, and Fama, Investor Behavior and Behavioral Business Finance: Short Sales and Returns, Value-Return Relationship İKT 536 Macroeconomic Theory 3+0 6,0 Macroeconomics: Definitions, Methodology and Macro Problems; Economic Growth: Solow Growth Model, Augmented Solow Growth Model, Endogenous Growth Models, Do Implications of the Models Match with the Data?; Consumption, Saving and Investment; Open Economy Macroeconomics: BOP, Current Account, Twin Deficits; Asset Market, Money and Inflation: QTM, Money, Money Demand; Business Cycles: Definitions, BC facts; IS-LM/AD-AS Models: General Equilibrium; Real and Nominal shocks; Classical Approach: Misperceptions Theory, RBC Theory, Reverse Causation; Keynesian Approach: Menu Costs, Wage and Price Rigidity, Imperfect Competition, Effective Demand, Efficiency Wage Model, Animal Spirits and Investment; Unemployment and Inflation: SR and LR Phillips Curves; CB and Monetary Policy: Cold Turkey or Gradual Inflation Reduction? İKT 538 Applied Econometrics 3+0 6,0 Statistical Background and Basic Data Handling: Fundamental Concepts, The Structure of Economic Data; The Classical Linear Regression Model: Simple Regression, Multiple Regression; Topics in Econometrics: Dummy Variables, Dynamic Econometric Models, Simultaneous Equation Models, Limited Dependent Variable Regression Models; Time Series Econometrics: Box Jenkins Methodology, Modeling the Variance, ARCH-GARCH models, Vector Autoregressive

4 Models and Causality Tests, Stationarity and Unit Root Tests, Cointegration and Error- Correction Models, Identification in Standard and Cointegrated Systems; Methods of Estimation: Instrumental Variables Estimation, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Generalized Method of Moments Estimation, Two Step Estimation, Bayesian Methods in Econometrics; Panel Data Econometrics: Traditional Panel Data Models, Dynamic Heterogeneous Panels, Non-stationary Panels İKT 540 Applied Microeconomics 3+0 6,0 Consumer Behavior Theory: Utility maximization, Consumer demand; Market Demand and Demand Elasticity; Theory of Production and Cost: Profit maximization, Supply of firm, Input demand; Perfect Competition Model for Firm; Monopoly and Equilibrium for Firm; Models of Oligopolistic Markets: Traditional models, Modern oligopoly theories; Game Theory and Its Applications in Oligopoly Models; Uncertainty and Applications of Uncertainty Models; General Equilibrium Analysis. İKT 542 Monetary Economics II 3+0 6,0 Balance Sheet Analysis in Banking: Asset, Liquidity, Liability and capital management; Deposit Creation in Banking; Money Stock Determination: Monetary base, Money multiplier, Changes in money stock; Central Banking and Analysis of Central Bank balance sheet; Tools of Monetary Policy; Conduct of Monetary Policy: Choice of targets, Indicators of monetary policy; Monetary Policy Theory: Expectations and monetary policy, Activist and non-activist policy debate, Monetary policy rules and discretionary monetary policy; Monetary Policy Games. İKT 544 Open Economy Macroeconomics 3+0 6,0 Basic macroeconomic concepts, money supply, central bank, the money multiplier, the classical money demand, Keynesian demand for money, Friedman's theory of money demand, money market equilibrium, the exchange rate, long-and short-term exchange rate theories, the fixed exchange rate, flexible exchange rate the external balance of payments and the main accounts, current account deficit and external surplus, open-economy macroeconomic policies-fixed exchange rate system and a flexible exchange rate system, business cycles, Keynesian business cycle theory, new classical theory, policy shocks, open economy, economic growth and economic convergence. İLT 640 Trends and Issues in Communication Research 3+0 7,5 Scientific Method: Differences between in research and evaluation; Overview Of The Common Research Methods Used In The Field Of Communication; The Major Research Constructs In Communication; Overview Of The Periodicals On Media And Communication Studies; Trends In Research Methods On Communication And Media; Trends in research constructs on communication and media, Issues in media and communication research.

5 PZL 535 Marketing Information Systems 3+0 6,0 Information Subsystems: Geodemographic Information Systems; CRM (Customer Relationship Marketing) Systems; Internal Records System: Marketing Research System; Sales Information Systems; Data Analysis System: Micro- and Macro-environmental Inputs; Marketing Management Support Systems; System Components: System Performance; Data Resources; Challenges and Opportunities; Decision Support Systems: Web-based Customer Decision Support Systems; Research for Consumer Decision Making; Market Dynamics and Models: Customer Knowledge; Market Responsiveness; Market Oriented Culture Change; Internal Process Model; Human Relations Model; Open System Model; Rational Goal Model; Information Systems Effectiveness. SAY 520 Regression Analysis Techniques 3+0 6,0 Bivariate Simple Linear Regression Equation Estimation: Estimation with least-squares, Standard error and variance of estimation, Coefficients of determination and correlation, Assumptions of the model; Gauss-Markov Theorem; Interval Estimation and Hypothesis Testing of Bivariate Model; Regression and Variance Analysis; Prior Estimation; Regression Analysis without Constant Term; Multiple Regression Analysis: Meaning and comparison with simple regression, Estimation, Applications, Solution using Matrices. SOS 532 Risk and Crisis Management in Organizations 3+0 6,0 The concept of risk; Definition of the crisis; Kinds of risks; Theoretical perspectives explaining the risk; Risk perception and risk culture; Risk management; Definition of the crisis; Causes of crisis; Types of crisis; Management before the crisis; Management during the crisis; Management after the crisis; Inquiry of the cases related with the risk and crisis in organizations. SOS 616 Multi-culturalism 3+0 7,5 The Concept of Multiculturalism; Cultural Diversity, Cultural Homogonity, Cultural Heterogonity; Culture, Identity and Politics, Cultural Differences, Modern and Postmodern Culture, National, Ethnic and Minority Culture; Cultural Conflict Local, Global and Hybrid Culture, Case Studies on Multiculturalism. TRZ 516 Hospitality Marketing 3+0 6,0 Understanding the Hospitality and Tourism Marketing; The Role of Marketing in Strategic Planning; Marketing Information System; Market Research; Consumer Markets; Consumer Behaviour; Market Segmentation: Targeting, Positioning; Designing and Managing Products; Price in Hospitality Firms; Distribution in Hospitality Firms; Promotion in Hospitality Firms; Sales Promotion in Hospitality Firms; Electronic Marketing; Destination Marketing. UZE 616 Advance Studies in Distance Education 3+0 7,5 Overview of the Scientific Method; Theoretical Background of Distance Education; Research Variables and Constructs in Distance Education; Transactional Distance; Interaction; Learner Control; Social Context; Online Learning Community; Moderation; Online Collaboration; Social Presence; Assessment.